[plm] 02/05: update the provided manpage

Martin Quinson mquinson at moszumanska.debian.org
Sat Nov 1 16:52:29 UTC 2014


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commit 12fcb0aaf6be3f467b5e66a6d6a23f7e1f161be3
Author: Martin Quinson <martin.quinson at loria.fr>
Date:   Sat Nov 1 15:45:51 2014 +0100

    update the provided manpage
---
 debian/plm.1 | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/plm.1 b/debian/plm.1
index 2750116..73cf15c 100644
--- a/debian/plm.1
+++ b/debian/plm.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PLM 1 "June 16, 2012" PLM "PLM - Programmer's Learning Machine"
+.TH PLM 1 "November 1, 2014" PLM "PLM - Programmer's Learning Machine"
 
 .SH NAME
 .B PLM
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@
 The \fBProgrammer's Learning Machine (PLM)\fP is a free cross-platform
 programming exerciser. It lets you explore various concepts of
 programming through interactive exercises, that you can solve in
-either Java, python or scala.  The interface and the whole content is
-througfully translated to English and French. 
+either Java, python or scala (see below for the Scala suppport).  The interface and the whole content is
+througfully translated to English and French, and mostly translated to
+Brazilian and Italian.
 
 The following lessons are included in this package:
 
@@ -55,6 +56,13 @@ version 1.6 or higher, either from OpenJDK or from another vendor.
 options; every elements are configured either through the user-defined
 property file, or within the graphical interface directly.
 
+.SH SCALA SUPPORT
+
+The current Debian version (2.9) of scala is too ancient for the PLM,
+that requires at least 2.10. The support for the Scala language was
+thus removed from the Debian package. Sorry for the inconvenience.
+Please help us packaging the latest release of Scala if you can.
+
 .SH FUTURE EVOLUTIONS
 
 Other lessons are planned to explore new concepts, such as the
@@ -71,10 +79,17 @@ will be contributed by the community in the future.
 User-configured properties. 
 
 .TP
-~/.plm/*.zip
-Save files for each lesson. This contains the text that you provided
+~/.plm/plm.users
+List of PLM users defined on this machine.
+
+.TP
+~/.plm/<UUID>/
+Save files for each user. This contains the text that you provided
 to solve the exercises. You can copy them over to another machine to
-continue your work.
+continue your work, but you probably don't want to manually mess up
+with these files. If both machines are connected to the Internet, it
+is much easier to recreate a user with the same UUID on the second
+machine, and let the PLM synchronize the files for you.
 
 .SH "LICENSE"
 
@@ -90,6 +105,5 @@ There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
 .BR java (1)
 
 .SH BUGS
-See https://github.com/oster/JLM/issues?sort=created&state=open to
-report bugs and other feedback.
+See https://github.com/oster/PLM/issues to report bugs and other feedback.
 

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